by Lufthansa Flyer | Jul 10, 2017 | Africa, Air Canada, Airlines, Austrian, Featured, Lufthansa, Route Announcements, Star Alliance |
AIR CANADA:
Vancouver – Delhi: Effective October 14 will BEGIN 3x/week service (Seasonal resumption).
Vancouver – Delhi: Effective October 31 increases from 3x/week to 4x/week.
Vancouver – Delhi: Effective between December 4 and January 31 increases from 4x/week to 5x/week.
AIR CHINA:
Beijing – Athens: Effective September 30 will BEGIN 2x/week service (Previously scheduled to start November 1).
Beijing – Jakarta: Effective November 2 increases from 3x/week to 4x/week.
AIR NEW ZEALAND:
Auckland – Buenos Aires: Effective between March 25 and April 30 increases from 3x/week to 4/week.
Auckland – Shanghai: Effective between January 18 and February 28 increases from 7x/week to 10x/week.
ANA:
Tokyo (NRT) – Los Angeles: Effective October 29 increases from 1x/day to 2x/day.
AUSTRIAN:
Vienna – Cape Town: Effective October 27, 2018 will BEGIN 2x/week service.
Vienna – Tokyo (NRT): Effective May 15, 2018 will BEGIN 5x/week service.
AVIANCA:
Sao Paulo – Santiago de Chile: Effective August 7 will BEGIN 2x/day service.
EVA:
Taipei – Fukuoka: Effective October 29 increases from 7x/week to 10x/week.
LOT:
Budapest – Chicago: Effective May 5, 2018 will BEGIN 2x/week service
Budapest – New York (JFK): Effective May 3, 2017 will BEGIN 4x/week service.
LUFTHANSA:
Frankfurt – Nagoya: Effective March 25 increases from 3x/week to 5x/week.
SHENZHEN:
Shenzhen – Manila: Effective August 2 will BEGIN 3x/week service.
TURKISH:
Antalya – Tel Aviv: Effective August 30 will BEGIN 4x/week service.
Trabzon – Yanbu: Effective June 29 BEGINS 1x/week service (Until September 14).
H/T: AirlineRoute.net
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jul 9, 2017 | Featured, Lufthansa, Munich, Passenger Experience, Security, SmartDepart |
Lufthansa has announced that it will make life a bit easier for passengers flying from Munich’s Terminal 2 to a handful of German cities.
For passengers flying to Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, or Dusseldorf, they will be able to bypass the main security screening checkpoints and go to the gate area for the flights where security screening will take place.
Dubbed ‘SmartDepart’, this new screening process is now in place during peak travel times of 6:00a to 8:30a and from 4:00p to 6:30p. In addition to the security ‘shortcut’, the gates for these flights will be located in the central area of Terminal 2, further reducing the amount of time passengers need to take to make their flights. In fact, the aircraft will park at gates closest to the exits of the destination airports as well.
But there is one theoretical restriction to the program. Signage indicates that passengers traveling with ONLY ONE carry on piece of luggage will be allowed to use SmartDepart. But in practice I find it hard to believe that passengers will be penalized if they have a purse or small briefcase in addition to their carry on bag. We’ve come to know that barks have always been worse than bites when it comes to such things.
If you are traveling on one of these flights, look for signage that reads ‘Smart Depart Fast Lane’ inside of T2 in Munich. That will take you to the express security check point.
The service is open to all passengers on these flights regardless of Miles & More status or class of travel.
If I understand LH’s press release correctly, it appears that this program will be expanded to more LH flights starting on October 31.
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jul 6, 2017 | 777, Austrian, Featured, Route Announcements, Vienna |
Austrian Airlines announced that it is set to return to two destinations next year.
Beginning with the Summer 2018 schedule, passengers will once again be able to fly Austrian from Vienna to Tokyo, Japan (Narita) and to Cape Town, South Africa. In their comments, Austrian suggests that market dynamics have once again made it lucrative to serve these long haul destinations. It also doesn’t hurt that they’ll be adding another Boeing 777 aircraft to the fleet next spring. At that point they’ll have 6 777 aircraft that can be deployed on their long haul routes.
Flights to Tokyo will begin first with 5 flights per week starting on May 15, 2018. Cape Town will be launched later in the year with 2 flights per week beginning on October 27, 2018.
